Last month, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, two researchers who surveyed women faculty members around the country on their attitudes toward extended tenure summed up the problem in the title of their talk: Fear Factor.
Barring a disaster or a highly unlikely change of heart, he will probably match John Paul Stevens's extended tenure.
Buyout offers would be made to "Fox colleagues who have extended tenure," Gianopulos said.
As an example, she recommends policies that extend tenure decision timetables for women faculty.
The proposal on term limits would not start the eight-year clock until 2015, but it would offer a referendum on what Illinois voters think of the hyper-extended tenure of politicians like Mr Madigan.
The incumbent, Rafik Hariri, had resigned when Syria unconstitutionally extended the tenure of the Lebanese president, Émile Lahoud.
The retirement age for bishops is 75, but the pope has on occasion extended the tenure of church leaders he trusts, and that was the case when Cardinal 0'Connor turned 75.
The Security Council extended the tenure of international troops in Afghanistan today for another six months but chose not to expand their ranks, as Afghanistan's interim government and some senior United Nations officials had urged.
The House of Elders – Somaliland's upper house of parliament – recently extended the tenure of the incumbent president and this brought the opposition parties leaders and the public out in protest.
With Ms. Park's election, South Korea extended the tenure of its staunchly pro-American governing party and handed power to the first woman to win the post in a deeply patriarchal part of Asia.
SEOUL, South Korea — With the election of Park Geun-hye as president on Wednesday, South Korea extended the tenure of its staunchly pro-American governing party and handed power to the daughter of South Korea's longest-ruling dictator, the first woman to win the post in a deeply patriarchal part of Asia.
